Geber, Monica Ann
Associate Professor
I am an evolutionary biologist and ecologist, interested in the causes of underlying patterns of species` abundance and distribution. My current work focuses on the limits of geographic range expansion in plants.
I am active in 5 professional societies, including services on society councils and editorial boards.
research
research and scholarship focus
My current research is on the ecological and evolutionary limits on geographic ranges. In addition, I am broadly interested in the interface between genetic diversity and evolution within species and community-level interactions between species. I have ongoing projects on the community ecology and evolution of plant-pollinator interactions and on the evolution of plant mating systems.
primary investigator of
- COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ECOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY-GENETIC LIMITS TO RANGE EXPANSION | Research Grant
- DISSERTATION RESEARCH: EFFECTS OF A HYBRID HOST PLANT ON DIVERSITY AND ABUNDANCE OF INSECTS | Research Grant
- DISSERTATION RESEARCH: EVOLUTION OF PLANT TRAITS IN A SPATIALLY AND TEMPORALLY HETEROGENEOUS LANDSCAPE | Research Grant
research areas
- biodiversity | collaborative research area (CALS)
- ecology | collaborative research area (CALS)
- environmental sciences | collaborative research area (CALS)
- evolution | collaborative research area (CALS)
- genetics | collaborative research area (CALS)
- plant biology | collaborative research area (CALS)
- teacher education | collaborative research area (CALS)
submitted impact statement
- Ecological and evolutionary limits to geographic range expansion | 2006 Impact statement
affiliations
faculty appointment in
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) | Cornell department
member of graduate field
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | graduate field
other Cornell affiliations
- Evolutionary Genomics | NLSI/Genomics focus area
teaching
teaching focus
I teach introductory and upper-level undergraduate courses in ecology and evolutionary biology. My major instruction is in BioEE 278, Evolutionary Biology, a course that is required of all biology majors. I also teach an upper-level undergraduate/graduate course (BioEE 458) in Community Ecology and graduate seminars.
teaches
- BIOEE 7600 - Special Topics in Evolution and Ecology (TR 11:30:AM-12:30:PM) | fall 2009 class
- BIOEE 7670 - Current Topics in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (TR 10:10:AM-11:25:AM) | fall 2009 class
- BIOG 2990 - Introduction to Research Methods in Biology (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- BIOG 4990 - Independent Undergraduate Research in Biology (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- BIOG 2990 - Introduction to Research Methods in Biology (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
service
event host
Keywords: ecology, evolution, evolutionary biology and ecology, plant reproductive biology, plants, pollination biology, population biology